Arizona weekly enterprise., 1887-05-07
5sclnsslsf-Generai vilas owns two

I fostln4stef-General Villas owns two hotels.
 A mite of an Ohio boy. nine years old, writes poetry.
 Berlin has but one church to 5O,000 of It's inhabitants.
 Germany will increase her torpedo boat hotilla to 150 vessels.
 Congressman Hewitt's wife has a private fortune of S2,000,00O.
 Lord Wellesley has but one eye, hay ing lost the other in the Crimea-
 Common pine lumber is quoted at $70 to S90 thousand feet in Mexico.
 Miss Julia Pease, Vassar graduate, cultivates 5000 a res of land in Texas.
 Japanese law compels people to sell fish alive. They are ve ded in tanks. Comic opera in a 6,000-capacity tent will be the novelty in New England next summer.
 In fifteen years Texas expects to have more Congressmen than any other State in the Union.
 A new rifle, capable of discharging three bullets at the same moment, has been made in France.
 Recently discovered mummies serve to prove that tattooing was common among the ancient Peruvians.
 Steam is often used to extinguish fire in Germany for the reason that it causes much less damage than water.
 New York shines are down to two cents. This is on Washington square. About the City Hail they are still five cents.
 Pope Leo XIII. thinks the evils of the working classes arise chiefly from their abandonment of religious prin-, ciples.
 A Mexican weed called the loco yields a juice which induces almost inn mediate insanity. causing death in a few days.
 The net profits of Fioaro, the great Paris newspaper, last year were 2,SS3,- GOO francs ($476, ,60J). The stock stands at 112.
 San Jose is the only city in Califor- mia with a population exceeding 10,- GOO. that is not in debss- There are but five such in the United States.
 There are over fifty penitentiaries and 2,400 jails in the United States. They contain 50.000 criminals, and their estimated cost is S500,0 100000.
 Mary is tine most common of all names in England, there being 6.8l9 out of every 50 900 individuals answer ing to it. William comes next, with 6,59O.
 Of those who participated in the war of 1872 hardly dozen are now living. Astoria, ILL, las one who is ninety three years old, and saws wood for a living.
 Writing will look like silver, it is stated, if the ink is composed of l mucilage water intermix with one ounce of fine pewter and two ounces of mercury.
 The latest objectors to the skating rinks are the saloonkeepers, who com plain that the rinks draw their cus- blow to the rinks.
 The prediction is made that the clock of the future will run perpetual ly, being so constructed that the changes of the temperature between night and day will wind it up.
 Tennyson's latest American visitor found the poet with pipe in his mouth, as usual, and alongside of him on the floor jars two feet nigh, filed with Virginia tobacco, the gift of James Russell Lowell.
 There is a turpentine farm near Live Oak, Fla, upon which five stills are operated and work given to 250 hands. The farm includes 18.000 q res of land, and produces annually l75,000 gallons of turpentine and 14,O0J barre.s of resin.
 The machinery for the manufacture of pa CT four barrels is said to be per fected and in satisfactory working order. It is claimed that paper barrels will soon be substituted for wooden in many of the leading mills Of the coun- try.
 A grocer at Providence, R. l., sold an article on credit but forgot who was the purchaser. He sent the bill to six different customers in the hope O find- ing the delinquent, four of whom paid the bill, which they did not owe, with out question.
 A gentleman in Emore County. Alabama. adopts the following method of killing hawks: He makes d mix ture of strychnine and lard and anoints his chickens heads with it. Several dead hawks testify to the efficacy of the treatment.
 Some teachers of penmanship now teach their pupils to write with both hands. The method of instruction is to make the pupil write his name in pencil, and then go CT it with p n held in his left hand. Constant prac- tice gives proficiency.
 It is stated that small candles, re- markable for the purity and briliancy of the light they give, are imported in- to Europe from China, where they are made from wax supplied by minute in- sects bred for that purpose by the poorer class of Chinese.
 The Palatka (Fia.) Eerald says: "A man and family arrived here one day last week; the next morning he paid S450 for q lot. and that evening he had a shanty erected, stove put up, and | he and family sleut in if that niObt